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I'm experiencing burnout because of work.

Burnout is treated as an illness under Swiss law and not as a work accident (except in extreme cases). An employee incapable of work is entitled to salary maintenance (art. 324a CO) according to the applicable scale (Berne, Zurich or Basel) or via loss of earnings insurance (80% for 720 days). L…

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burnout occupational disease exhaustion health incapacity

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